Bernard O'Dowd - True America's Message lyrics

Our manlier spirits hear and will obey The Word YOU waft Australia o'er the sea-- 'Be true, be brave, be merciful, be free!' Not you, who, braggart, sent this wan array Of hell-ships vomiting their Will-to-Slay, These armoured Hates and pallid Envies we, 'Mid rattled mobs and flags hysteric, see Tarnish the chaste horizon of our Bay: But YOU we hear, our Comrades of the Cause, Who face hyaena Mammon in his den: And YOU, who dared your seas of blood to spill To drag the swooning slave from vampire jaws: Yea, YOU who freed unborn Australia, when You singed King George's beard at Bunker's Hill.